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Re:The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets by varenc on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:36PM (#35277365)
For this particular case, the use of PDFs seems irrelevant. Photos were just taken of each polling unit’s results. These photos happened to then be embedded into PDFs for distribution, but the core underlying data is just an image embedded into that PDF. No important data was destroyed when these photos were placed into PDFs.
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Re:The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets by seunosewa on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:04PM (#35304639)
They should probably have used JPEGS.
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